Conference

2020 National Black Members' Conference

Date

19 September 2019

Decision

Carried

Conference notes the report by the Office for National Statistics on �Ethnicity Pay Gaps in Great Britain: 2018� produced for the first time in July 2019.

Conference notes that earlier research eg. by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2017 and by the Resolution Foundation in 2018 shows that the ethnicity pay gap is of long standing, and that while some progress has been made to close these gaps many ethnic groups still experience lower pay than White British workers, with workers in Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic groups receiving the lowest median hourly pay.

In London the percentage difference in median hourly pay between people of a White ethnicity and all those who belong to an ethnic minority group stands at 21.7%, the highest in the country.

In 2018 the government began a consultation on whether they should legislate to compel individual employers to report their ethnicity pay gap as is now done for the gender pay gap, however the results of this consultation have not yet been published.

Conference call upon the National Black Members Committee to:

1)Work with the National Executive Committee to campaign for the ethnicity pay gap to be subject to similar reporting requirements as the gender pay gap;

2)Research how the ethnicity pay gap affects workers in public services, eg. by surveying members and branches;

3)Consider producing bargaining guidance for branches and regions to address ethnicity pay gap in individual employers;

4)Work with the National Young Members Forum to campaign against this issue and promote the campaign among young Black workers.

Conference

2020 National Black Members' Conference

Date

19 September 2019

Decision

Carried

Conference notes the report by the Office for National Statistics on �Ethnicity Pay Gaps in Great Britain: 2018� produced for the first time in July 2019.

Conference notes that earlier research eg. by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2017 and by the Resolution Foundation in 2018 shows that the ethnicity pay gap is of long standing, and that while some progress has been made to close these gaps many ethnic groups still experience lower pay than White British workers, with workers in Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic groups receiving the lowest median hourly pay.

In London the percentage difference in median hourly pay between people of a White ethnicity and all those who belong to an ethnic minority group stands at 21.7%, the highest in the country.

In 2018 the government began a consultation on whether they should legislate to compel individual employers to report their ethnicity pay gap as is now done for the gender pay gap, however the results of this consultation have not yet been published.

Conference call upon the National Black Members Committee to:

1)Work with the National Executive Committee to campaign for the ethnicity pay gap to be subject to similar reporting requirements as the gender pay gap;

2)Research how the ethnicity pay gap affects workers in public services, eg. by surveying members and branches;

3)Consider producing bargaining guidance for branches and regions to address ethnicity pay gap in individual employers;

4)Work with the National Young Members Forum to campaign against this issue and promote the campaign among young Black workers.